Here’s a video of the (snowy) official ceremony January 22 opening the historic wooden “Green Synagogue” in Rezekne, Latvia after a €700,000 renovation process that lasted a decade. The building — as we reported earlier — will be a wooden … continue reading →
A prayer service was held this month in a historic wooden synagogue in Istanbul that had been closed and out of use for more than half a century — but within days a wall outside the building had been defaced by anti-semitic … continue reading →
The modernist-functionalist Agudas Achim synagogue on Skořepka street in Brno, Czech Republic, has reopened after a renovation — and as part of the ceremony received a newly written Torah scroll. The renovation was in part funded with a €204,409 grant from the … continue reading →
Ilya Lensky, of the of the Jews in Latvia Museum in Riga, has sent us this photo, from the Ludza City Council, taken January 13, showing the restored exterior of the Great Synagogue in Ludza. As we reported at … continue reading →
The historic wooden Green Synagogue in Rezekne, Latvia will be reopened January 22 as a wooden architectural heritage center and cultural space with an exhibition about Jewish heritage, following a more than €700,000 renovation. It will be open to the … continue reading →
